The Brisbane BizTalk User Group was created in 2005 to identify and unite the expanding community of Microsoft BizTalk Server designers, developers, administrators and users in the Southeast Queensland area, providing a forum to share knowledge, information and experience in the Connected Systems arena. Although we don't have regular meetings, there are special events from time to time which you will be notified of if you register. In addition to the resources on this site, we also have a BrizTalk You-Tube Channel for hosting recorded webcasts and presentations.

The BizTalk Summit 2015 will take place in London this year on April 13 & 14, again sponsored by BizTalk360. This is always a monumental event featuring the top speakers in the industry - and this year is no exception! With an impressive line-up featuring at least ten integration MVPs and four members from the Microsoft product team, this is one not to miss!

Tickets are already on their way to selling out, so don't hesitate to register before you miss out on the early bird price!

Be sure to check out the weekly online presentations hosted by the UK user group. Every week so far has been an exciting presentation by top people in the BizTalk & Azure integration space, including Charles Young, Sam Vanhoutte, Michael Stephenson, Josh Twist, Steef-Jan Wiggers, etc. The event occurs at 5:30am Brisbane time - so you need to get up early! (Or you can download and watch the recordings)

Integrate 2014 is a Global BizTalk Summit that will be held on the Microsoft Campus, Redmond WA (USA) between December 3-5, 2014. The event was organized by Microsoft team over the past 2 years, but this year the baton has been passed on to BizTalk360 to organize and execute this event along with some core partners. This event is a key milestone for the Microsoft product group as they are expected to release some important product announcements, their vision and roadmap for the coming months.

The line-up of speakers is looking pretty impressive so far, including a number of folks from the BizTalk Product team! Be sure to register before the event sells out, as there are limited places available. Hope to see you there!!

Microsoft Integration MVP and BizTalk Mapper champion Sandro Pereira has just released a whopping 400-page eBook entitled BizTalk Mapping Patterns & Best Practices, and incredibly, it's FREE TO DOWNLOAD!! What a phenomenally generous contribution by this prolific blogger/author/speaker in the BizTalk community!

The book covers in extraordinary detail a plethora of common mapping patterns, including (to name a few):

Unfortunately a recent bout of registration spamming has forced us to temporarily disable the new registration screen. Existing users will still be able to log in by responding to a Captcha prompt, but no new user accounts may be created at this time. Please accept our apologies for an inconvenience while we look into the matter further.

Some awesome updates to Windows Azure BizTalk Services were announced today by Scott Guthrie, including:

Support for the EDIFACT Protocol

X12 Schema Updates

Able to pull messages from Service Bus Queues & Topics

Shared Access Signature support with Service Bus

BizTalk Adapter Service no longer needs SQL on-premises

Backup & Restore support

Operation Log Support

This has enornmous implications for those of us seeking cloud-based integration solutions. We look forward to seeing even more improvements over the coming months as BizTalk Services continues to mature.

Read all the details in Scott Gu's blog (scroll to bottom for WABS updates):

Microsoft has announced the General Availability of Windows Azure BizTalk Services (WABS)! Having been in Preview only for almost six months, you can now feel confident deploying your applications to this service. The new pricing goes into effect on 1 January 2014.

Recently, Microsoft announced the release of a plethora of new features in Windows Azure, not the least of which was the preview version of BizTalk Services. A re-vamped version of the former Azure Service Bus EAI/EDI Labs which was released last year and taken down earlier this year,Windows Azure BizTalk Services boasts Business-to-Business (B2B) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) capabilities for cloud and hybrid integration solutions, including:

Like most Azure offerings, BizTalk Services runs on a secure, dedicated per tenant environment that can be provisioned on demand within minutes. It does not require any upfront license, and supports a pay only for what you use billing model.

Learn more about how to setup and start using the Windows Azure BizTalk Services preview.

Also of interest is that there is no developer edition of BizTalk 2013 to download. Instead, MSDN users can download the Enterprise edition, which is the same as the developer edition. There is also the 180-day free trial edition.

BizTalk Saturday is back with a new Hands On Day in Brisbane! Here's your chance to get up to speed with the new features of BizTalk Server 2013 under the guidance of Microsoft MVP Bill Chesnut ("BizTalk Bill") and BrizTalk Coordinator Dan Toomey! The Brisbane date is Saturday, 13 April 2013. Be sure to register now at the link below:

Microsoft Brisbane has relocated to its new premises at L28, 400 George Street. Our regular scheduled meetings continue at the new venue.

BizTalk Management Pack for SCOM Released!

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Microsoft BizTalk Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM). Many customers were waiting on this to move forward with their BizTalk Server 2009 deployments. With this availability, we are in a stronger position to drive BizTalk Server 2009 opportunities.

The Brisbane BizTalk User Group portal has a new home, courtesy of Microsoft hosting services. It also has a new look, thanks to the upgrade in DotNetNuke. Please be patient over the next several days as we gradually migrate content over from the old server.

User Accounts:

Unfortunately we are unable to migrate the user accounts from the old site. This means that you will have to recreate your account on this new site in order to access exclusive members-only content. We apologise for the inconvenience. However, rest assured that the mailing list has been preserved from the old site, so you will continue to receive notices even if you do not create a new user account here. If you wish to be removed from the mailing list, please contact the coordinator.